Pink Tide

The PeopleSkool at POOR Magazine presents:

The Revolution Begins With "I" a revolutionary media production seminar

The Revolution begins with "I" ( and then becomes "we"). Constructing
your history; creating your biography as a personal and political
process. This is a media training that puts the power of authorship,
media production and publishing in the hands of silenced peoples
struggling with poverty, migration, disability, racism and other forms
of oppression. Media itself is expanded/ redefined to include poetry,
story, visual art, message, grafitti, hip hop, music, as well as
multi-media journalism. This workshop is facilitated by poverty scholars
who themselves have struggled with multiple forms of oppression,
poverty, racism, and disability who believe that we as poor people need
to be writing our own stories, authoring our own media and reclaiming
our own voices.

Each workshop participant who completes a piece will be published in
PoorNewsNetwork on-line, an international on-line network of media
producers in poverty. We will also speak on corporate media infiltration
tactics for community orgs who are seeking to place stories.

Here is their press release:

Press Release from Poor People's Network

The Criminalization of Poverty and the Impact of Global Climate change
on Poor Communities of Color in the Americas and Beyond

Two lead scholars on poverty, disability, race and indigenous
resistance, Leroy Moore and Lisa 'Tiny' Gray-Garcia, from POOR
Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork, a revolutionary poor people led/indigenous
organization based in the US will be presenting at 'The Pink Tide:
Reconfiguring Politics, Power and Political Economy in the
Americas?' at University of Nottingham on January 22-24.

Leroy Moore, Poet, Journalist, Race and Disability Scholar, Founder of
Krip Hop and Columnist for POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork and Lisa
Gray-Garcia aka Tiny, Poet, Journalist, Poverty Scholar. welfareQUEEN,
Co-Founder of POOR Magazine/PNN and author of Criminal of Poverty;
Growing Up Homeless in America published by City Lights will be
presenting on the increasing criminalization of poor/landless
communities of color in the Americas and the impact of Global Climate
change on poor communities of color locally and globally.

POOR Magazine is a revolutionary, non-profit, grassroots, arts
organization providing extremely innovative people led media access,
education and advocacy in poverty in the Bay Area.

POOR's current media and art projects include PoorNewsNetwork which has
columns on local and globally poverty, disability, migration,
incarceration and struggle written by the folks who experience it
first-hand such as illn n chilln, Leroy Moore's column on poverty, race
and disability, Voces de Inmigrantes en Resistencia ( Voices of
Immigrants in Resistance), a bi-lingual journalism column and project
for poor migrant workers in the US, Youth in Media, Global Poverty and
Struggle and Indigenous Peoples Media Project.

Other projects of POOR include (www.racepovertymediajustice.org)
WelfareQUEENS, a theatre and education project for poor mothers and
families on welfare in the US facing increasing criminalization for the
sole act of being poor. Los Viajes/The Journeys, an audio and literary
anthology documenting the journeys of poor migrants across the globe and
introducing the UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples and POOR Press- the
publishing arm of POOR Magazine